Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-08-13
Our Brooklyn Letter.

EDITOR CIrIzKs.-Among the most wonderful of the experiments in hyPOo tic moralizstion" is that of the perverse Limkine boy who was magnetized by 6 youps practitioner of the new science in Manchester, EDg., and after 8 sleep of few hours sSoke sn ornament to society. He had previously been distinguished for robbisg the neighbors' hen roosis. stealing pastry from bskers' counters and taking long drives in wagons that didn't belong to him, From his very birth be had steadily done these things which he ought not to do, and at the age of thirteen bsde fair to become the most hardened of reprobates. But one dose of hypDotism cured him. Mothers of naughty boys may tsks heart. If one case of moral innoculstion can be prov ed. and there are certainly many at- tested, the evolution of the human fam ily assumes a more hopeful aspect. It will certainly not be so slow as IL has been heretofore.
 Al n gathering of scientific men ID Boston the other dsy the prevailing sen timept appeared to be that the princIpsl effect of the Dr Mc.Glynn imbrolzio had been to break the back bone of Catholicism in this county. "Disinte- grafton" said one .'r absolutely sure to follow a schism. and such a sehism was never before known in the history o! nd aAnIA nutN have been accomplished by an injury to one of one of its most highly esteemed and dearly loved priests" Nothing is sure but the unforeseen" sn old French proverb tells us, and who could have imagined thIs turning away of the thou sands from the teachings and com msnds of the infsllible Pope2 The Catholic church seemed more impregna- ble than any other institution under tbe sun. but there IS a rent in her walls now which even the most skilled of her Jesuticsl workers can Dever repsir.
 The statement has been freely made for sUne time that the brilliant grsdu- sting essays Of our public schools, the salutatoriss; the valedictories, and sll the rect, are practically written by The teachers of composition, the pupils them SC yes having very little to do with them. A theme IS given, snd the 9iri or boy struggles for a week or two. When the stuff is presented to the Eng ,iah teacher who andy zes. asks ques- tions, erases and substitutes. sll the time endeavoring to persuade the vrtim inst he or she IS doing the work Then follow the endless rehesrsals, the gath eripg of delighted parents and friends, the white dresses, blue ribbons, and sp- plause. Your correspondent inquired Of we'll known teacher of competition not long ago, if such reports were true, and she relutlantly admitted thst they were. "The fac. is," she said, that not one pupil in fifty has any spiiuie with the pen, though they may be creditshle scholars in general or special studies. For some reason this truth is utterly ignored by school boards. and 30 boys who cannot express themselves n cor rect, to ssy nothing of elegant English, in letters to friends are sent upsn plat forms to mouth the rhetorical periods. and claim as the result of thir own study the knowledge of people events and philosophiss which has taken years of hard systematic labor to RcCuire. will give you s case in print. The most attsctive girl of our last sraduat- ing was choser as the vGledctorisn. She came to me frankly and ssii, 'I can not do this work. You know II and the principal knew 1t. I tbInk I could reed the paper deceDtly If some one ese could prepare it." This was true ant l land the mstter before the proper authority, but sll to no purpose. The poor girl WAS obliged to go to work and mild ups structure for me to pull to pieceL took the unrhetorical, ungrammstiGsl and utterly sepseless stuff to the puncipal "Of course you'll have to fix itlp." be said, That's what you're here br." At lsst the girl who was really hoHst. de- clsred she would not claim as her oSD an essay that did not belong to her and wrote 6 note to the principal begging to be excused. This is an exact trsncript of the document:
 Dear Sir:-Miss B. has wroe the whole valledictory for me. and I am not writing 10 say 1t is mine. Vii you please excuse me? The poor child land ed me the note to read, and let | go, thinking 1t would be the best argument for honest dealing that could be urn ished-but she was not excused. The esssy was read, praised and publihed." In the name of all that is respectable, why do school boards lend themselves to such bsreisced dishonesty? Fiends, and fellow citizens, such a course IS de- grading, and the system that fees 1t must be rotten to the very core.
 The following letter which vii eer- tainly be of interest to mothers, hssiust reached me: "your article about sec ond summers is too true ss my ex,eri- ence will prove. having lost three bsu- tiful children st this critical period and for DO other reason than the ipjudIdous use of milk aod stsrchy food, Wby milk should sometimes be poism to teething babise. do not know, but the fact remains. If 1t had not beer for Marian Hsrland who told us about Csrprick's Soluble Food, We nould have lost another and our lsst, thi, slm- mer. Don't 'ail to impress upon moth CTS the necessity of regular times for feeding. Many babies are killed by irregulsrity ss well as improper food'